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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Foreign Military Aircraft Landings (16 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: Responsibility for the regulation of activity by foreign military aircraft is accorded to the Minister for Foreign Affairs under the Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952. Arrangements under which permission is granted for foreign military aircraft to land at Irish airports are governed by strict conditions. These include stipulations that the aircraft must be unarmed,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Status (16 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the number of persons that have been naturalised from 2005 to date is 113,000 approximately. Once granted citizenship new citizens acquire the same rights as all other citizens. A leaflet informing new citizens of their right to register and vote in all elections in the State, and how they can...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that on-line visa applications were made on 28 October 2015. The applications and supporting documentation have not been submitted to any of the Visa Offices or Irish Missions abroad. The visa applications cannot be processed until the visa fee has been paid and the signed summary sheet and all the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (16 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Reception & Integration Agency (RIA) of the Department of Justice and Equality is responsible for the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers while their application for protection in the State is being processed. RIA also procures suitable premises on behalf of the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration (OPMI) for the accommodation of refugees when they first...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Investigations (16 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 109, 110 and 115 together. As the Deputies will be aware, I have previously met with family members of the victim to whom the Deputies refer and their legal representative to hear their concerns about aspects of the Garda investigation of the murder of their loved one and their call for an inquiry. This case was one of those inquired into previously by the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (16 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 111 to 113, inclusive, together. I have received the information from the Garda Commissioner requested by the Deputy, regarding the number of Garda stations and the number of gardaí in each of the Waterford, Kerry and Tipperary Garda Divisions on 1 November 2010 and on 1 November 2015. The information requested is being complied and will be sent to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (16 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Garda Commissioner is the Accounting Officer for the Garda Vote and in that context I am informed by the Garda authorities that after 32 weeks of training, Garda recruits are attested and move on to the first point of the Garda pay scale €23,171 rising to a maximum of €45,793 per annum after 19 years. They may also qualify for other allowances depending on their...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (16 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy will recall that the information requested in both of the Parliamentary Questions referred to was not readily available at the time, and that I undertook to write to him directly on receipt of the information from the Garda Commissioner. A post reply for Parliamentary Question Number 267 of 7 July 2015 issued from my office on 23 September 2015 and a post reply for...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I have already done what Deputy Mac Lochlainn has said should be done. I will remind him of the facts. In the interest of maintaining public confidence in the penalty point system, I put in place a further assurance and oversight mechanism, which I mentioned earlier. I appointed Judge Matthew Deery, former president of the Circuit Court, to act as an independent oversight authority of any...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: Deputy Clare Daly will not accept it and I understand that but we have had to take account of that in preparing the legislation and, at the same time, we have managed to produce a Bill and an authority that will provide a very important service. The Deputy talks about defending the system. I have said repeatedly that reform and change are needed. The Government accepted the last...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: If Deputy Mac Lochlainn has evidence of what he has just put before the Dáil I would like him to give it to me because the matters to which he referred were one of the key issues we took seriously when we examined the penalty points reports. The Director of Public Prosecutions is to evaluate applications for cancellation made by a garda to avail of the statutory exemption for emergency...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Motions (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The proposed amendments are purely correctional relating to such matters as cross referencing, the reinstatement of omitted words, the removal of superfluous words or the slight restructuring of a section to ensure absolute clarity. In amendment No. 61, (7) should read (6) and (6) should read (5).

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Motions (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: This amendment gives greater clarity to ensure that there is early resolution and that mediation is used. It is a clarifying amendment.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Motions (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: This is a drafting correctional amendment to restore text which was omitted during the course of the amendment being made on Committee Stage in the Seanad.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Motions (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: This is where a witness is called and the tribunal takes a decision that expenses should be given back. It is to insert after "Authority" the phrase "or the legal practitioner". The legal practitioner concerned would be subject to paying back the witness's expenses.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Motions (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: This is a drafting correctional amendment which corrects a cross reference.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Motions (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The words "or" and "and" were there, so this is to remove the word "and".

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Motions (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: Instead of "cause" the word should have been "caused".

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Motions (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: This is the citation relating to the Solicitors Acts. One citation was omitted so it is being inserted.

Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Order for Second Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."